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Showing 1 to 20 of 493 for “"Legacies"”.
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Properties and Legacies of Tsirelson Space
Tsirelson space is a reflexive, separable Banach space constructed by Boris Tsirelson to be the first example of a Banach space that does not contain an isomorphic copy of the sequence spaces c_0 or l_p for 1\leqslant p<infinity. We begin with the construction of the classical sequence spaces c_0 …
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Repairing the legacies of transatlantic slavery
… racial inequality.To overcome the socioeconomic legacies of transatlantic slavery, reparation must prioritise relational and attitudinal repair. This thesis utilises the theories of restorative justice, and its implementation in truth and reconciliation processes, to argue that museums and …
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Colonial Legacies and Development Performance in Africa
It is often assumed that significant differences existed between Great Britain and France with regards to their respective styles of colonial administration. Some researchers have asserted that this difference in colonial administration has affected post-colonial economic and political development …
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Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Ethical Legacies Throughout Generations
<p><strong>Research Topic</strong></p> <p>This critical hermeneutic research study explores ethical meanings during a time of dual-generation care and how these interpretations may affect one's view of family life across generations. The research participants in this study were adults situated …
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Colonial legacies and the trafficking of Indigenous women in Canada
This paper examines how the ongoing impact of colonialism continues to shape the vulnerability of Indigenous women and girls to human trafficking in Canada. It offers a decolonial critique of Canada’s National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, while drawing on Critical Race Theory and …
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Legacies of Destruction: Architecture as a Nationalist Battleground in Kosovo
Architectural destruction is often perceived as inevitable collateral damage during modern conflict, but a major facet of the Kosovo War of 1998-9 and its aftermath was the deliberate targeting and demolition of architectural heritage on a massive scale. Both Serbian and Kosovar Albanian …
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Legacies of the Canada Games: a critical analysis of claims
… Canada Games should be more careful using the legacies argument because generalized claims can be misleading and, at times, lack meaning.
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Frontier Legacies: The Search for Home in the Twentieth Century
"This dissertation investigates several paradigmatic relationships between the concepts ""home"" and ""the frontier."" It focuses on four writers of the twentieth century from divergent cultural and literary contexts. Each writer depicts the psychic paradox of feeling homeless in one's home. The …
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Women of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Historical legacies impacting contemporary involvement
This research explores the development of the status of women in post-Soviet Central Asia. The research shows that women in Kyrgyzstan are more actively pursuing opportunities to contribute to civil society than what is found in Tajikistan, where the pressures for women to return to more …
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Policy legacies and child care politics in Australia and Canada
… to the impact of post-WWII child care policy legacies in these countries and the way that these legacies interact with the changing politics of the welfare state to produce variation. In Canada, child care policy was first established within a social assistance framework as a service intended …
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Legacies of Early 20th Century Logging in Southern Appalachian Streams
I examined streams in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock wilderness to determine if streams responded to logging following 75 y of recovery. Joyce Kilmer was never logged and the Slickrock wilderness was logged from 1917 until 1922. Wood was common in unlogged streams and averaged 417 m³ of wood/ha of …
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From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness
… By unearthing Chicanx archives and illuminating legacies of Chicanx and Latinx AIDS consciousness and activism, this dissertation makes interventions to the nation’s one-dimensional landscape of AIDS by offering new methodologies through a queer Chicanx positionality. This research focuses on …
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Enclaves, legacies and prospects for sustained development in mineral-rich Africa
Why has economic development and prosperity proved so elusive in resource-rich sections of Africa? For over four decades, the International Finance Institutions (IFIs) have promoted export-led resource extraction as a catalyst for economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. But …
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Personal Touches, Public Legacies: An Ethnography of LGBT Libraries and Archives
Personal touches, Public legacies: An ethnography of LGBT libraries and archives examines lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) information organizations in Vancouver, Canada and surrounding areas. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the diversity in, changes to and challenges for …
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Europeanization of the Estonian Electricity Sector: Historical Legacies and Security Concerns
Estonia, generally considered a Europhile country, is showing the first signs of opposition to supranational European Union (EU) policies. This is because the EU's energy- and climate policy's trinity of policy directions---creation of an internal market, security of supply and environmental …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
This dissertation posits that writers can symbolically represent domestic violence to critique unjust gender relations as well as iniquitous US policy toward Mexican Americans. I use the term domestic violence because it most closely describes the double voiced discourse women engage to critique …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… I hope to have argued that colonial legacies have enduring effects in the present and that the question posed by colonial forms of knowledge and representation is not merely epistemological or historiographical but also a political one. Written as a history of the present, this …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… critically fabulate—queer material legacies? The first—or earliest extant—American film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material culture, queer identity, film, the Internet and pornography, this paper …
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